But even so, fossil fuel makes so very little sense from an efficiency standpoint:
1. A diesel engine has at best 30-40% efficiency. Electric has 90%. Even if all your electricity comes from coal fired power plants, it's still environmentally better than extracting oil, refining it, trucking it, burning it in an inefficient gas engine.
2. Trucking fuel out to gas/fill up stations is very inefficient compared to using the infrastructure we've already got for electric - your outlet. Doesn't cost a penny to transport it.
3. The reason countries and states can control the petrol prices to the degree they do is that laymen could never refine petrol in the backyard and take control of production. They had us by the balls. Electricity can't be controlled like that - there is solar power, wind power and plain old water powered solutions readily available for anyone. Who's going to stop you from charging your aircraft or car from your farms stream?